Media Fail On Af-Pak
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Oct 15 09Judah Grunstein gets lost in "the fog of politics" surrounding Afghanistan: [T]he debate, as it's unfolding in the media, is riddled with misinformation and false propositions. Remember how last March, al-Qaida was a grave threat, and drone strikes targeting its... Full story...
More stories from andrew sullivan the daily dish »
Revising The Ten Commandments, Ctd
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 2 hours agoHere's Walt Whitman's alternative to Hitch's revision - a more positive version of commandments and more than ten, and all about what we should do rather than what we shouldn't.
Free Association While High
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 3 hours agoJonah Lehrer responds to this post: A new paper published in Psychiatry Research sheds some light on this phenomenon, or why smoking weed seems to unleash a stream of loose associations.
The Princeton Talk
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 4 hours agoI'll be posting more segments during the week, but if you don't have the time, you can indeed listen to it all as a podcast here, or as a video here on Princeton's website.
Sacred Values And Iran's Nukes
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 5 hours agoScientific American checks out research on the subject: As diverse as people are in ascribing sacred status to possessions, they are equally varied in which values they consider sacred, a diversity that can breed substantial conflict.
Revising The Ten Commandments
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 5 hours agoHitch gives it a go: From his article on the subject: It’s difficult to take oneself with sufficient seriousness to begin any sentence with the words “Thou shalt not.
Does God Need Friends?
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 6 hours agoAngie Hobbs, a University of Warwick fellow who "has written widely on the philosophical history of friendship," discusses Plato's Lysis: [Socrates, Lysis, Menexenus, and Hippothales] examine a variety of models for why individuals form friendships.
Atheistic Reincarnation, Ctd
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 6 hours agoA reader writes: As I'm sure you know Rowe's argument is explicitly made by Friedrich Nietzsche, who calls the doctrine "the eternal recurrence" thesis.
Choices With Ripples
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 7 hours agoJonah Lehrer points to studies finding that qualities like generosity, obesity, and selfishness move through social networks.
Dogmatism And Race
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 8 hours agoA meta-analysis of 55 independent studies published in Personality and Social Psychology Review finds that religious devotion has a positive correlation to racist sentiment.
WaPo Neocon Watch
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 9 hours ago"Most Israeli settlement announcements, including this one, are pure symbolism: No ground will be broken anytime soon, and even if the homes are eventually constructed they won’t stand in the way of a Palestinian state.
Popular Tags »»
academy awards asian celebrity gossip clubbing cock entertainment facebook film fri gadgets gay marriage gay men gay rights girlfriend god gop hiv hollywood lady gaga lesbian love marriage music oscars parenting personal blogs photo photos politics pride robert pattinson same sex couples same sex marriage sexual orientation technology and web twitter washington post
Have your say - be the first to comment
Login